However, and hopefully, the European Internet is welcoming this week @JohnnyErasmus and his blog «Ohh, Brussels !». Also, the European commissioner for digital agenda and commission vice-president Neelie Kroes is now on Twitter : @NeelieKroesEU.

Other rules, this time, true ones, coming into effect: the new cap on phone price (for calls, texts, and data roaming) inside the EU is now applying – The citizen of Europe won’t face any bad surprise when discovering their bill upon coming back from vacations. [*,*,*,*]

A compromise has been reached on the regulation of bonuses – variable part of salary – in banks; those bonuses will be more linked to long term results of the bank, in order to limit risk taking [*,*]

Since we are talking about banks, let’s move to the SWIFT agreement, on bank data transfer to the US to fight terrorist financing : a new version of the agreement might soon get the go from the parliament in a vote [*,*,*,*].

The WTO judged that certain subsidies from the EU to Airbus are illegal, following a plaint by the American society Boeing[*,*,*] the two companies are in competition to build a tanker aircraft for the US Army.

Let’s move now to our recurring segment of European economy: bad indicators in the US in conjunction with a low demand on short term loan to European banks [*] boost the Euro which climbed to its highest level for a month[*]. Greeks are protesting against austerity measures put in place by the government to resolve the crisis [*,*] Spain is facing difficulties: the notation agency Moody’s downgraded five Spanish regions [*,*,*] – Spain could face a crisis[*].